Being Unique in the Face of ChatGPT
Time to embrace AI
Hello from London!
For thousands of years, humans survived, cultivating crops and providing for each other. Farmers were the kings. If you had land and food, you survived. The world evolved and steam engines and water wheels arrived and then electricity came and changed the world. It’s a familiar story and one that many draw analogies on. Electricity’s impact would not be immediate but it would herald a new era.
And in that era, we have seen the dawn of significant speed. This has been a period that our forefathers would look at with much anticipation. And now as we advance past key technological moments - that of the personal computer, that of the internet and that of the mobile - we are starting to see the dawn of a new era. The AI Era.
AI is why I was excited 5 years ago and why I’m excited now.
What will this mean for humans? We have moved from a slow evolution through which strength and physicality have been important to an era when intellect and IQ have been dominant. Analytical skills continue to be important but our differentiation as inidviduals will become our own secret sauce. Over the coming years, uniqueness will become the key to existence. AI has replaced knowledge - and for us, it is how we leverage AI to become unique and how we become more creative than technology on its own. How will we become adaptable? How will we become dynamic? And how do we celebrate the uniqueness of humanity?
Over the last month or so we have seen a foray of startups. As we saw the Internet bring us tools we didn’t think we needed, we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg with ChatGPT. Chat GPT is everywhere. And although ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon , it’s why Google issued a code red in response to ChatGPT. It’s also why Microsoft wants to spend $10bn to allow it to steal a march on the future - and put your Office Suite on speed. You might not need to write a fully formed word doc again. You already probably don’t need to look up an Excel formula again.
The reality is that we are just at the beginning. GPT-3 has 175B paramets. GPT-4, which will launch soon has 100T parameters. If you’re not thinking about how to leverage these tools while balancing your unique qualities as a legitimate human, now’s the time to define your self. It’s the discomfort of changing in this world that will keep you ahead.
In the meantime here’s a peak into a few (100+) AI tools that you need to know.
Stay Curious [and stay unique],
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